{"id":44358,"date":"2025-06-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=44358"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T21:51:34","slug":"festivo-the-sound-of-love-zester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/festivo-the-sound-of-love-zester\/","title":{"rendered":"Festivo\/The Sound of Love\/Zester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Calendar of festivals<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I try to coordinate my travel to exotic places with local festivals that occur at the same time. Trouble is, there\u2019s been no easy way to find out which festivals are happening where. For example many traditional celebrations run on a lunar cycle. So I built a calendar that will show me all the festivals in Asia that are happening on a particular day. Or I can look at the map and see what festivals occur nearby and when. My site is called Festivo<\/a>. It provides the local festivals of Asia\u2014which are crammed with color, costumes, and traditions\u2014in calendar format. It\u2019s open and free to all, no ads. If enough people (besides myself) find it useful I will expand it to Europe, Africa, and the rest of the world. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sound of Love<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The website The Sound of Love<\/a> offers a beautiful way to experience love songs. For four years, the creator collected comments found beneath love songs on YouTube, carefully selecting nostalgic and touching stories about longing, love, and loss. You can read these personal stories and memories here while you listen. There\u2019s also a Spotify playlist<\/a> featuring all the songs from The Sound of Love. (Discovered through Dense Discovery<\/a>.) \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wide zester<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While I like my thin microplane<\/a> for super-fine zesting, I use this wider grater from Allwin<\/a> a lot more. The key difference is its curved blade profile \u2014 it really bites into whatever you’re grating. The wider surface area also means you can get through a block of parmesan or a big knob of ginger much faster than with a traditional narrow microplane. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contain your mess<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My husband is the gardener of the family, and this Repotting Mat<\/a> is his favorite gardening tool. It\u2019s quick to snap together and contains all the soil mess when potting plants. He has two in different sizes. I imagine it would work well for keeping track of small parts too, if you\u2019re working on other projects. \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leak detectors<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Three separate acquaintances of mine recently suffered significant, expensive flood damage in their homes as a result of water leaks while they were away. It\u2019s not an uncommon disaster. After some research I settled on the best recommended solution: a set of wireless water sensors from GoveeLife<\/a> ($100) that emit a loud alarm and send a text\/email to my phone if they detect water leaking. I placed the 6 small wireless units below sinks, near toilets and water heaters, etc.\u2014the most likely places to leak. They were very easy to pair with my home wifi and phone app. Downside is that in a few years their batteries will need to be changed. Upside is they really work and in my testing, just a small drip or a millimeter of water will elicit an immediate alarm and text\/email message. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peanut butter hack \u2014 use a massage gun<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After seeing a video of someone using a massage gun to force every last drop of mayonnaise out of a bottle, I decided to try in on a plastic jar of unmixed natural peanut butter. I pushed the business end of the gun against the side of the jar and marveled at how quickly the vibrations mixed the separated oil with the solids. A week later, the peanut butter remains perfectly blended. Note: I’ve only tested this on plastic jars; use caution with glass containers. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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